Just before midnight, I finished my edit that incorporates all the critiques of Totem Book 1. I joined my critique group last March and have been diligently submitting one chapter per week since then. Often learning so many wonderful and often maddening things, that I spent more time pre-rewriting each chapter before submitting, than I did going over the 3-6 critiques I received each week.
It takes a lot of work to read, digest, and incorporate six sets of varying suggestions. Or not incorporate (but I needed a good reason for that so it took brain power.) Now I'm done… Only the manuscript is now at 123K words and agents and publisher want them to be around 120K.
"Just when I think I'm done, they pull me back in!"
So I need to think about it for a bit and maybe…maybe give it a final read-through. Oh baby Jesus, I'm happy with this book, but am ready to move on to the next project.
Maybe some beta-readers would do the trick…
In any case, somewhere a kachina is dancing for me right now.
It takes a lot of work to read, digest, and incorporate six sets of varying suggestions. Or not incorporate (but I needed a good reason for that so it took brain power.) Now I'm done… Only the manuscript is now at 123K words and agents and publisher want them to be around 120K.
"Just when I think I'm done, they pull me back in!"
So I need to think about it for a bit and maybe…maybe give it a final read-through. Oh baby Jesus, I'm happy with this book, but am ready to move on to the next project.
Maybe some beta-readers would do the trick…
In any case, somewhere a kachina is dancing for me right now.
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